Day 2 - Fix the Zelena baby situation day oqfixitweek ! TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF PAST SEXUAL ASSAULT!

Sighing, Regina shifts her weight from one leg to another, her hands tightening around the now cold cup of coffee. She's leaning against the doorway in the kitchen, staring desperately at her lover without any idea of what to do, of how to help him.

Robin's been sitting here for five hours now, not talking, not reacting to anything around him, just blinking his eyes from time to time, inhaling shakily every now and then.

Regina wishes she could ease his pain, she wishes there would be some way to make it all better.

Sadly there's nothing she can do.

She cannot do anything to fix or undo what Zelena has done to him, to them. He was struggling a lot when he found out that she was not Marian, he was already suffering that she's used his dear wife's memory and ruined his life so badly.

But he learned to live with that, he somewhat recovered.

However, when they thought that he was finally on his way to healing, the Wicked Witch appeared out of nowhere. This morning she met them on their porch with a wicked grin on her face. She laughed right into their faces when she told them that the baby she's carrying is not Robin's, that it was all a trick, another way to hurt Regina. She's told him that they had never even slept together, it was just a quick and easy spell that made Robin think so, that made Robin remember all those horrible things that didn't even happen.

It turned out that all Robin's memories from New York were a spell.

Regina felt how Robin's hand fell slack in her hold, how he tensed with every word that left Zelena's mouth. He was burning with rage, she could feel it, but he didn't say a single word, he just grabbed Zelena by her neck and tried to kill her.

Of course, he wasn't successful, and as soon as the witch was out of his hold, she disappeared in a cloud of green wishing them a good luck, laughing.

For a moment there, Regina thought that Robin would be relieved. After all, he wasn't sleeping with another woman against his own will, he wasn't touched by that witch in that way. It should have made him feel at least a bit better.

It had to.

It didn't.

So here he is, sitting at the counter in the kitchen, staring at the blank wall in front of him for hours. He hasn't said a single word since Zelena disappeared, he didn't reply when Regina came to him, asked if he wanted to talk to her, if he needed her there.

He didn't even glance at her.

It seemed as if he hasn't even seen her then.

Regina can only imagine what is going on in his head now, and it's obviously not positive thoughts, and she's been there too, she's been manipulated and used. She knows where it leads to and she can never let Robin go down this path.

So taking a deep, encouraging breath, she steps further into the kitchen and walks to the counter, sits down on the chair beside Robin. When he doesn't acknowledge her presence, she puts the cup she's been holding on the counter and turns to look at him.

"Robin," she calls his name but there's still no response from him. "Talk to me, please," she adds in a quiet voice. Her heart is beating rapidly in her chest as she waits for any kind of reply – a shout, asking to leave him alone, a statement that he's fine (when he so obviously isn't) or a push away from him, anything would be better than this damned silence. "Robin, please, tell me what you are thinking."

It takes a long moment and she has to fight back her tears because watching him like this is killing her but then he finally turns to her and when he does so, her heart breaks even more. She's been watching him for a long while now but she hasn't noticed that he's been crying, crying a lot.

His ocean-blue eyes are blood-shot and puffy and so sad, it makes tears collect in Regina's eyes. He looks devastated, her always cheerful and strong thief.

"Robin," Regina cannot help herself, she places her hand on his. She's learned that when he's mad or angry, or hurt, he doesn't want touches or comfort, he wants his space, so when he doesn't move away from her, she counts it as a good sign. "Please, talk to me," she repeats her words, looking straight into his eyes, begging him not to close in on himself, asking him to let her in.

He takes his time, stares at her as if he hasn't even heard what she's asked but then he looks down and swallows hard, his whole body tensing again.

When he speaks, his voice is hoarse.

"I spent countless sleepless nights thinking about what that bitch has done to me," he says, looking back straight into Regina's eyes and she quickly nods in agreement, she's spent most of those sleepless nights wide awake with him. "And it was all a lie. She used me to hurt you, she ruined my memories of my wife, she… she made me believe that I was unfaithful to you and… and moved on with someone else and was having a child. She made me feel-" he doesn't finish his sentence because his voice breaks, and he only shakes his head to himself, his eyes falling away from Regina's.

He doesn't need to finish that sentence, though. Regina knows how he feels, how he felt about all of this. She's been there, been in that awful phase where her own body made her want to throw up because it was touched by someone who had no right to do it. Even if their circumstances are different, the final result is still the same.

"I want to hurt her, Regina." When he speaks again his voice is strong and full of rage. "I want to make her pay for everything she's done to me, to you, to Roland," he exclaims, running his hands though his hair desperately.

Regina wants to hug him, wants to pull him into a tight embrace and hold him until he feels better. But she decides against it and just lets him let it all out.

"I want to make her suffer as much as I did."

"Oh, Robin," she whispers, and she cannot listen to this anymore, this is too much, so she gets up from the chair and walks closer to him, wraps her arms around his shoulders tightly and holds him in her arms.

He doesn't hug her back, and she only tightens her arms around him, her whole body shaking because she cannot watch him suffer like this, it's breaking her apart.

When he finally hugs her back, arms winding around her waist and holding her close, he breaks down. His body starts to shake in her hold as he finally, finally lets all of his emotions out.

He cries and sobs and curses Zelena over and over again, and then, after what feels like hours, he's spent, his arms still wrapped around her, but now loosely, as his breathing is calming down, as his heart is finally trying to find its normal pace.

"You need to rest," Regina whispers, running her fingers through his blond locks when the weight of his head indicates that he's going to fall asleep too.

He nods his head and without a fight they go to their room.

When Regina lies beside Robin that night, she curses her sister too. She looks at not so peacefully sleeping Robin and promises herself to do everything in her power to fix things, to make them better.

They will work hard and fight their demons together and one day they'll be happy again.

One day.